Colwick St John the Baptist

List of Incumbents

Rectors of Colwick

(This list show Rectors since the building of the current church. Click for Rectors of the old church.)

Date Name Notes
1946      William T P Wheeler Patron, Trustees of the late Sir H D Davies.
Perpetual Curate, St Augustine, New Basford from 1950.
1950 Albert Edward Lewis Patron, Trustees of above.
Rector Emmanuel Church, Bestwood Park, 1952.
1952 George Henry Firth Patron, Trustees of above.
Deacon and Priest 1942, Vicar Ault Hucknall 1945-6, Perpetual Curate, Feamille 1946-9, Resigned from Colwick 1955.
1955 Jack Hodgett Gibson Priest-in-charge. Vicar of St George’s, Netherfield. Previously Rector at Sneinton, and Annesley Woodhouse. Resigned for Keyworth in 1961. Retired from there in 1968 or 1969.
1961 Eric W Veal Priest-in-charge, Vicar of St George’s, Netherfield, Vicar of Westminster, Colorado, USA for 13 years until 1961, Resigned for Englewood, Denver, Colorado, USA in September 1968.
1968-69 No Rector the Parish under the charge of Canon C H B Watson, Gedling. Services taken by visiting Priests.
1969 Charles Eurwyn Jones, B.Sc of St John’s, Carlton; appointed Priest-in-charge. Rev Peter J Harrison, appointed as resident curate in Dec. 1969.
1975 Christopher Gale  

Rectors of Netherfield and Colwick

Date Name Notes
1978 Ronald James Smith  
1985-1994 Robert Miller  
1996 Jack McGinley Priest in Charge; 1996 – 2002 Paul Whitehead – Associate Priest
2003 Robert Chapman Priest in Charge